Researchers reveal wolves pups play ball as the researchers threw a ball: they didn't expect the wolf's reaction. Until now, scientists have not suspected that wolf puppies can be played with.

It surprised researchers that some wolf pups instinctively bring back the discarded ball, as do most dogs. In a recent issue of the iScience Science Journal, Swedish scientists say that most dogs have the ability to play and throw natural balls in wolves.

The researchers studied 13 wolf puppies from different litters in a series of behavioral tests. Of the animals involved, three eight-week-old pups showed an instinctive interest in the discarded ball and brought it back to the stranger who requested it.

Researchers reveal wolves pups play ball

Why is this a huge thing?

The discovery surprised scientists, as they had previously assumed that the cognitive abilities needed to decipher man-made signals, which are needed to assist in the recovery of a discarded object, had been established for at least 15,000 years after the dog was domesticated.

"When I saw the first wolf puppy running back with the ball, I became goose-skin, it was so unexpected." I immediately realized that if a kind of man-controlled game behavior was already present in wolves, it might have been an aspect of domestic selection, said Christina Hansen Wheat, a scientist at the University of Stockholm.

His research team looks at how domestication influences behavior. To study, dog and wolf pups were raised from the age of ten and then subjected to a variety of behavioral tests. In one test, a man unfamiliar with a kid throws a tennis ball at the gym. The little animals had never seen one before. Then one encourages them to bring the ball back to him.

The result of the experiment

In fact, they weren't expecting werewolves to take the floor and help out. The first two litter wolf puppies did not show much interest. Not only did some of the little wolves in the third litter run away for the ball, but he also responded to the signals he received from an unknown man and ran back to him with the ball.

According to Hansen Wheat, the similarities between dogs and wolves tell us where the behaviors of dogs come from, writes Phys.org, a science-education portal.

"In the early stages of dog domestication, the behavior we saw with the werewolf puppies might have been a selection advantage," the researcher said. The group bred dog and wolf puppies under similar conditions, continuing their work on three years of work to learn more about the differences and similarities in behavior between the two species.

They thought they had rescued a dog from the icy river

When the animal arrived at the refuge, even those who worked there didn't notice anything strange. But the local hunter, who was on the scene, made everyone aware that they were not actually dealing with a dog.

Adam Makkai died

Ádám Makkai, who died on Saturday at the age of 85, is a twice-Kossuth-winning poet, linguist and literary translator, the family informed MTI.

Adam Makkai was a retired professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who has done much to promote the international recognition of Hungarian literature.

Adam Makkai sees MMA as his own dead.

Ádám Makkai was born on December 16, 1935 in Budapest, his father, János Makkai was a Member of Parliament, a journalist, and his mother, Rózsa Ignácz was a poet. He began his studies in humanities at ELTE in Budapest, and after 1956, after leaving the country, continued in the United States, Harvard and Yale. From 1958 to 1960, he taught at Hawaii, from 1963 to 1964 at Kuala Lumpur, and from 1965 to 1974 at several American universities. From 1969 to 2004, he was an extraordinary professor at the University of Illinois, but taught linguistics in the 1985-1986 academic year in Singapore, and from 1988 to 2002 at the Hong Kong Baptist College.

In 1974, he founded the American Linguists Association, which he also served as executive chairman. He is also the founder of Forum Linguisticum, a book of cultural history of Hungarian poetry anthology in English. His thesis on the idiom structure of the English language, written in 1965, was also published in book form at the Mouton publishing house in The Hague. In 1995, he founded the Atlantis-Centaur publisher in Chicago.

He wrote ironic poems about metaphysics. His most important volumes are Thirst and Brush (1966), K = 13 (1970), Jupiter's Eye (1991), Cantio Nocturna Peregrini Aviumque (1996), Lord God! Let me die! (2002), The Power (2003), The Prayer of Jesus and the Demons (2005). The Most Thousand Poems (2002) is a selection of eight centuries of poetry. Cantio Nocturna's Peregrini Aviumque, featured at the Frankfurt Fair in 1999 with the support of the Hungarian state, contains 12 variations of Goethe's poem "A similar song" in eight languages ​​each.

The thousand-page poetry of The Most Thousand Poems of Eight Centuries of Our Poetry was presented in Budapest in 2002 and has been recommended to a textbook as the poet's short biography can be found in the collection of poems.

Ádám Makkai was awarded the Kossuth Prize in 2011 for his work as a translator of Hungarian poetry worldwide, for his poetry of extraordinary form and unique language, in recognition of his career. In 2016, he was awarded the Kossuth Grand Prize in recognition of his highly acclaimed literary translations worldwide, and for his unique and innovative poetry, outstanding artistic career, and outstanding value in teaching and scholarly public life. In 2016 he was awarded the Order of the Hungarian Saint Stephen. In 2019 he was elected a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA).